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L. MOSOHGOWITZ.

POCKET FOR GARMENT STAYS. No. 387,958.

Patented Aug. 14, 1888.

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i NITED LOUIS MOSCHCOXVITZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POCKET FOR GARMENT STAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,958, dated August 14, 1888.

Application filed April 7, 1888. Serial Noflfiihfl'ii). (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 12mg concern.- wlse of said tape is arranged a narrow strip,

Be it known that I, LOUIS Mosc'iioowifrz, 4-, of paper or other fabric,of a width equal to a citizen of the United States, residing at New the width of the stay to be used. The paper York, in the county of New York and State or other strip being narrower than the tape,

of New York, have invented new and useful a longitudinal margin of adhesive substance Improvements in Pockets or Casings for Garis left exposed at each side, so that the longiment and other Stays, of which the following tndinal edges of the uneoated tape or band 2 is a specification. can be pressed upon and cemented to the cor- This invention has for its object to provide responding edges of the coated tape 1. The [O a novel, efficient, and durable pocket or castape or band 2, when secured at its edges, is ing for removable and replaceable stays that obviously free and unattached where its ion are adapted to be readily secured to corsets, gitudinal center overlies the narrow paper or dresses, and other garments. similar strip 4, whereby the pocket for a stay The invention also has for its object to prois provided in such manner that the stay is 15 vide a novel pocket whereby the stay, while free to move lengthwise and laterally to a liin- 6 movable lengthwise, is prevented from soon ited extent and thereby accommodate itself to wearing or cutting through the external part the pocket, while sewing is avoided. in con of the pocket. structing the pocket. The tapes or hands may The invention also has forits object to avoid be united at their edges and the strip 4 ce- 2o stitching or sewing in the manufacture of that mented in place by any suitable means-such,

class of pockets in which the stay is free to for example, as prcssure-rollers. move lengthwiseand at the same time is pre- I prefer to manufacture the pockets in large vented from soon wearing or cutting through quantities in a continuous length, and then the surface of the pocket. These objects I acsubdivide the same into any desired quair 25 complish in the manner and by the means tity; or the pockets can be cut off singly, all 7 hereinafter described and claimed, reference as will be obvious to those skilled the art. being made to the accompanying drawings, in The longitudinal edges 5, Fi 3, of the whichtapos or hands at the sides of the paper or Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the other strip 4. serve as means for stitching the 30 parts comprising the pocket separated from pocket to the corset or garment. The inner each other and in position to be brought topaper or like strip serves to prevent the stay gether and untied. Fig. 2 is a perspective when in use from wearing or cutting through view showing the narrow strip of paper in the outer tape or band, 1, which is subjected position on the ccmgp teoated textile tape or to considerable friction when in contact with 3 5 band, the other tape or band beiugin position the inner garments on the body of the wearer, to be cemented in place along the opposite and such paper alsoserves the further function edges of the narrow paper or other strip; and of preventing the appearance of rust on the Fig. 3, a crosssectional view on an enlarged external surface of the outer tape or band, 1. scale. The pockets may be sold by the yard or cut 0 In the drawings I have omitted to exhibit into any suitable lengths and sizes, or they 0 the steel stay, as my invention resides solely may be sold singly with the stays inserted. in the construction and means of making the Prior to my invention stays have been cepockets for removable and replaceable steel mented firmly into casings; but this is very oband other stays which are composed of a narjectionable, in that if the stay should break 5 row flat flexible strip. the entire stay and its casing are destroyed, g5

In the drawings, the numerals l and 2 indiwhereas by my invention I not only avoid onto two tapes or hands of cotton, linen, or sewing to form the pocket, but use cement to other textile material of equal dimensions, the unite the parts, while the stay itself is not cetape 1. being provided on its inner surface with mented, but is free to be removed and replaced, 5o acoating, 3, of adhesivcsubstance, and lengtlr and can move in the pocket to accommodate I00 structed longitudinal opening between the taper strip and the inner tape to receive a re- I 5 movable stay, with the cemented edges of said textile tapes projecting laterally for sewing the pocket to a garment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 40 presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS MOSOHOOWITZ.

Witnesses:

. HERMAN Mosorroowrcrz,

BERNARD ROTHMAN. 

